Publikace na Evangelická teologická fakulta |
2016
Abstrakt
This paper addresses the question of the risks of hospitality through an examination of two twentieth century French philosophers, Vladimir Jankelevitch and Emmanuel Levinas. With Jankelevitch the limits of forgiveness, both practically and morally, are examined, and thus the limits of hospitality.
Levinas offers another approach, still seeing the problematic nature of forgiveness, but insisting on the rights of the stranger who has no other protection, whilst also insisting on the fundamental place of justice in any debate over forgiveness and hospitality. The paper ends by drawing on these two authors to reflect on attitudes to migrants in the Czech Republic today and asks what the approaches described can provide.